Franchot Tone
Born: 1905-02-27 in Niagara Falls, New York, USA
Died: 1968-09-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor, star of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and many other films through the 1960s. In the early 1960s Tone appeared in character roles on TV dramas like Bonanza, Wagon Train, The Twilight Zone, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franchot Tone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
1996
- Joan Crawford: Always the Star as Self (archive footage)
1991
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1989
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
1972
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1970
- Brasileiros em Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
1968
- Nobody Runs Forever as Ambassador Townsend
- Shadow Over Elveron as Barney Conners
1965
- Run for Your Life as Judge Taliaferro Wilson
- In Harm's Way as CINCPAC I
- The Making of A Movie as Self
- Mickey One as Rudy Lopp
1964
- The Big Parade of Comedy as Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
- See How They Run as Baron Frood
- How to Make a French Dish as John K. Montasy Jr
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Rudolph Bitzner
- The Virginian as Murdoch
- Advise & Consent as The President
1961
- Ben Casey as Daniel Freeland
- Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles as Your Host
1960
- The Shape of the River as Mark Twain
1959
- Bonanza as Denver McKee
- The Twilight Zone as Col. Archie Taylor
1958
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Candy Lombe
- Bitter Heritage as Frank James
1957
- Uncle Vanya as Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Joe
- The Little Foxes as Horace
- Rendezvous in Black as Hugh Strickland
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Oliver Mathews
- Too Old for Dolls as Mike Ramsay
1954
- Climax! as Henry Hutton
- Twelve Angry Men as Juror #3
1953
- General Electric Theater as Charles Proteus Steinmetz
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Ben
1951
- Tales of Tomorrow
- Here Comes the Groom as Wilbur Stanley
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Meredith Whitehouse
1949
- Suspense as Markheim
- Lights Out
- The Man on the Eiffel Tower as Johann Radek
- Jigsaw as Howard Malloy
- Without Honor as Dennis Williams
1948
- Studio One as Juror #3
- The Philco Television Playhouse
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Every Girl Should Be Married as Roger Sanford
- I Love Trouble as Stuart Bailey
1947
- Her Husband's Affairs as William Weldon
- Honeymoon as David Flanner
- Lost Honeymoon as Johnny Gray
1946
- Because of Him as Paul Taylor
1945
- That Night with You as Paul Renaud
1944
- Phantom Lady as John 'Jack' Marlow
- The Hour Before the Dawn as Jim Hetherton
- Dark Waters as Dr. George Grover
1943
- Five Graves to Cairo as Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos
- His Butler's Sister as Charles Gerard
- The Voice That Thrilled the World as Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
- True to Life as Fletcher Marvin
- Pilot #5 as George Braynor Collins
1942
- The Wife Takes a Flyer as Christopher Reynolds
- Star Spangled Rhythm as John
1941
- She Knew All the Answers as Mark Willows
- This Woman Is Mine as Robert Stevens
- Nice Girl? as Richard Calvert
1940
- Trail of the Vigilantes as Kansas
1939
- Fast and Furious as Joel Sloane
1938
- Three Loves Has Nancy as Robert 'Bob' Hanson
- Love Is a Headache as Peter Lawrence
- Three Comrades as Otto Koster
- Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6 as Self
- The Girl Downstairs as Paul Wagner
- Man-Proof as Jimmy Kilmartin
1937
- Quality Street as Dr. Valentine Brown
- The Bride Wore Red as Giulio
- They Gave Him a Gun as James 'Jimmy' Davis
- The Romance of Celluloid as Self (archive footage)
- Between Two Women as Allan Meighan
1936
- The King Steps Out as Emperor Franz Josef
- Love on the Run as Barnabus Pells
- The Gorgeous Hussy as John H. Eaton
- Suzy as Terry
- Exclusive Story as Dick Parton
- The Unguarded Hour as Sir Alan Dearden
1935
- Mutiny on the Bounty as Roger Byam
- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer as Forsythe
- One New York Night as Foxhall Ridgeway
- Reckless as Robert 'Bob' Harrison Jr.
- Dangerous as Don Bellows
- No More Ladies as Jim 'Jimsy Boysie' Salston
1934
- Sadie McKee as Michael
- The World Moves On as Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914
- The Girl from Missouri as T.R. Paige, Jr.
- Gentlemen Are Born as Bob Bailey
- Straight Is the Way as Benny
- Moulin Rouge as Douglas Hall
1933
- Dancing Lady as Tod Newton
- Gabriel Over the White House as Hartley Beekman - Secretary to the President
- Bombshell as Gifford Middleton
- The Stranger's Return as Guy Crane
- Today We Live as Ronnie Boyce-Smith
- Midnight Mary as Tom
- Stage Mother as Warren Foster
1932
- The Wiser Sex as Phil Long